Health systems and services

Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the last few years, but scientific research is not keeping pace.

Today our emergency care system faces an epidemic of crowded emergency departments, patients boarding in hallways waiting to be admitted, and daily ambulance diversions.

The inclusion of genomic data in a knowledge-generating health care system infrastructure is one promising way to harness the full potential of that information to provide better patient care.

In the United States, health among racial and ethnic minorities, as well as poor people, is significantly worse than the overall U.

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Protecting 18 million United States health care workers from infectious agents - known and unknown - involves a range of occupational safety and health measures that include identifying and using appropriate protective equipment.

Medicare is the largest health insurer in the United States, providing coverage for 39 million people aged 65 and older and 8 million people with disabilities, and reaching more than an estimated $500 billion in payments in 2010.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

The roots of health literacy can be traced back to the national literacy movement in India under Gandhi and to aid groups working in Africa to promote education and health.

Since the late 1960s, the survival rate in children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer has steadily improved, with a corresponding decline in the cancer-specific death rate.

Millions of people are living with dementia in the United States and globally.

Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions.

Enormous changes are occurring in the organization and financing of the U.

Women suffer disproportionate rates of chronic disease and disability from some conditions, and often have high out-of-pocket health care costs.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is a critical component of our nations emergency and trauma care system, providing response and medical transport to millions of sick and injured Americans each year.

An estimated forty million people carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and five million more become newly infected annually.

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Every community is affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI).

The initial sequencing of the human genome, carried out by an international group of experts, took 13 years and $2.

Rapid advances in technology have lowered the cost of sequencing an individual's genome from the several billion dollars that it cost a decade ago to just a few thousand dollars today and have correspondingly greatly expanded the use of genomic information in medicine.

Clinical trials enable scientific discoveries to advance patient care, in addition to informing and guiding subsequent research.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Health Literacy focuses on bringing together leaders from the federal government, foundations, health plans, associations, and private companies to address challenges facing health literacy practice and research and to identify approaches to promote health literacy in both the public and private sectors.

A hallmark of high-quality cancer care is the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time.

Vaccines have made it possible to eradicate the scourge of smallpox, promise the same for polio, and have profoundly reduced the threat posed by other diseases such as whooping cough, measles, and meningitis.

HIV is spreading rapidly, and effective treatments continue to elude science.

The importance of behavioral, social, economic, and environmental influences on health is increasingly recognized.

Clinical trials enable scientific discoveries to advance patient care, in addition to informing and guiding subsequent research.

Research conducted over the past two decades has shown that poor patient understanding of medication instructions is an important contributor to the more than 1 million medication errors and adverse drug events that lead to office and emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and even death.

In 2010, an estimated 50 million people were uninsured in the United States.

On January 20, 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in his State of the Union address.

With the advent of genome-wide association studies, numerous associations between specific gene loci and complex diseases have been identifiedfor breast cancer, coronary artery disease, and asthma, for example.

This guidance note provides a comprehensive overview of medical oxygen production, distribution, and use in Asia and the Pacific region, and explores how to improve systems over the medium and long term.

The United States is facing an opioid use disorder epidemic with opioid overdoses killing 47,000 people in the U.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are serious, debilitating conditions that affect millions of people in the United States and around the world.

Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence.

Health literacythe ability for individuals to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services to facilitate appropriate health decisionsis increasingly recognized as an important facet of health care and health outcomes.

The number of people infected with HIV or living with AIDS is increasing at unprecedented rates as various scientists, organizations, and institutions search for innovative solutions to combating and preventing the disease.

In today's world the public faces many health threats from bioterrorism to the epidemic of obesity.

Public health is the science and art of improving the health and well-being of communities.

What if the church could be the place where struggling feels safe?

Globalisation affects health, health care and nursing and has the potential to change the very nature of what we now take for granted in health care and how we obtain it.

Este libro contiene resultados de un trabajo de investigación que resuelve un problema de respuesta efectiva y resolutiva en la prestación de servicios de salud para el modelo Colombiano.

Nacken- und Schulterschmerzen sind oft langwierig und häufig sehr schmerzhaft.

In dit handboek staat alles wat nodig is om een eigen huisartsenpraktijk te starten.

Disaster Preparedness for Seniors: A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals outlines specific disaster scenarios for homebound, community, hospitalized, long term care, homeless and aged veterans.

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Many fields of medicine have looked at the issue of transitioning care from pediatrics to adults.

Dieser kurze Leitfaden fasst die Anatomie und Pathophysiologie der erektilen Dysfunktion (früher «Impotenz») zusammen und gibt ausführliche Anleitungen für die Diagnostik und die psychologische, medikamentöse und operative Therapie.

This volume examines the relationship between health literacy and health outcomes, and the role of schools in promoting health literacy through the curriculum.